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By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons, 2nd Edition

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By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons, 2nd Edition

Ralph Caplan
  • ©2005
  • 288 Pages
  • illustrated, full color, softcover, 6 x 9
  • 978-1-56367-349-8
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An inspiring resource for design students, professionals, and anyone else seeking fuller appreciation of the design process, By Design vividly shows how design affects our most significant human activities. Engrossing stories illuminate the process as it applies to architecture, industrial design, interior design, fashion design, graphic design, and the design of business and social situations.

• New chapter explores the design response to technological changes, discusses heightened public awareness, and the opportunities it offers

• Discusses and explains the theories of green design and universal design

• Examines the work of Charles and Ray Eames to show how their practice encompassed product design, interiors, exhibitions, architecture, and film making

• The Possibilities of Design . . . the misplaced art of making things right
• The Professional Emergence . . . where industrial designers came, and are coming, from
• The Way Things Mean . . . what goes on between us and our artifacts
• The Prop . . . what chairs are for
• A Pride of Camels . . . we are all designers
• Suitable for Framing . . . is design art?
• The Design of Possibilities . . . the shift from object to situation
• Making Connections: The Designer as Universal Joint . . . object lessons in the work of Charles and Ray Eames
• The More Things Change, The More We Stay the Same . . . design and society respond to change and to each other

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Ralph Caplan writes about design for both professional and consumer publications, speaks about design to both professional and general audiences, and consults with both designers and their clients. His articles have appeared in such publications as Design Quarterly, Interior Design, The New York Times, and House and Garden. Caplan has lectured at many design schools and universities in the United States and abroad, and has been a keynote speaker at professional design conferences in all design disciplines. A former editor-in-chief of I.D. magazine, he is an honorary member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and a director emeritus of the International Design Conference in Aspen. In 2005, he was writer-in-residence at the Haystack Mountain School of Arts and Crafts.

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